michael murphy, he died fighting the war on terror. anna kooiman is here. >> and the commissioning the u.s.s. michael murphy, the destroyer that you see behind me is named after a 29-year-old american hero michael murphy the first american awarded the medal of honor, long island naviy seal michael murphy died in a fire fight on the deadliest day of navy warfare since world war ii. and michael bloomberg, charled schumer, peter king charles dignataries, michael murphy's mother maureen says she's honor to be the ship's sponsor, and the sailors will be like hers, serving with honor and dignity. >> and a big drop-out rate, you don't know my mike, he never quits, he'll make whatever he sets out to do. for some reason in school he always rose to the top. i'm proud of him. >> reporter: and so is america. on june 28th, 2005, murphy was leading a four man team tracking down a key taliban leader after being shot in the back, he lefted protected a position to get the signal to radio for backup and murphy and two other seals were killed along with